List of Greek words with English derivatives

This is an incomplete list of Greek words with derivatives in English. There are many English words of Greek origin, with a variety of histories: vernacular borrowing, typically passing through Latin and French; learned borrowing directly from Greek; coinage in post-classical Latin or modern European languages; and direct borrowings from Modern Greek.

The words (or suffixes) are in Greek alphabetic order, with tables for the 24 Greek letters, listing thousands of related English words.

Spelling

Greek words which have entered English through the vernaculars are generally spelled according to the new form they took, and there is no systematic correspondence between the Greek form and the English form: βούτυρον/butter, επίσκοπος/bishop. On the other hand, learned borrowings and modern coinages generally follow the conventional Latin transliterations: βούτυρον/butyr(ic), επίσκοπος/episcop(al).

Greek words with modern derivatives

The citation form shown is the form most commonly shown in dictionaries, but this form is often unrepresentative of the word as used to form a compound word, hence the root form is also shown. In the case of verbs, the citation form is often by convention the first person singular, present indicative, (cf Latin), for instance φάγω (phagō), "I eat", rather than the infinitive ("to eat").